Yayay! I’m so looking forward to our last presentations today! Even though it will be the second-to-last time we will all be together for this class 
I can’t wait to hear about everyone’s corn genes,though,I’ve discovered some interesting functions and I’m sure everyone else has,too. See y’all soon!
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Okay,last day of bio lab…Ever. Wow. We’ve finished our functional annotations of Benedict,and we’re getting ready to present the most interesting proteins to the class. While researching the functions of proteins was difficult (all of the articles were above my head!),I was able to sort out my internet problems and come up with some interesting (and college-freshman level) facts about my proteins. I can’t wait to hear all about what my classmates have found about the diverse Benedict genome! Yay,Anna! Hoots to you,we’re all so excited that you’ll be representing us this summer! As we all finish up our functional annotations,you can begin to smell it in the air…The excitement (and the nostalgia) that we are almost finished with this research project…It’s been a long and difficult year,but our work will pay off! Good luck at the conference,Anna,and HAVE SO MUCH FUN!!! So after working incredibly laboriously on all of our posters,they’re finally ready for presentation round 1! I’m excited about presenting in lab today,albeit a little nervous. But it’ll be good practice for URSA day tomorrow and Thursday. So good luck everyone,I know we’ll do fantastically! Oh,and congratulations to whoever has their posters chosen! So,I agree with my labmates for sure in reference to the technology issues…I think I’ve wasted a combined total of two labs just waiting on my computer to work! But fortunately these posters prove to be more easily accomplished. While it’s difficult to remember back to wet lab last semester,I’m enjoying all of the reminiscing over the good times! And the bad,haha. But I am looking forward to the video conference today —should be pretty interesting! A new adventure awaits… Well,after starting this new lab process,it’s easy to get frustrated. I had trouble figuring out what exactly we were supposed to be doing and what everything in phamerator meant! But practice makes perfect,and fortunately it’s all starting to come together now. No one said the road to success was easy,as we are now discovering! (Or I guess it’s more of another confirmation,after last semester ha-ha.) But we’ve made good headway,keep going everyone! We were back at it this week,trying once again to call all of the genes correctly. It is interesting to observe all of the different rules,especially when it comes to —how many bp can overlap between genes? And —how large of a gap is WAY too large? There are certain strategies to observe,but once you put all of the confusing rules together,they actually help you call the genes! As time goes on,we continue to get better and better at this assignment. We are almost finished,just a few more gene calls to make! So today we spent lab looking into the more complicated gene calls. There were several genes that my group called which ended up being controversial,and I believe we even changed one or two of our calls! I’m glad this could be a group effort today,I think it was in everyone’s interest to double check specific genes. I personally felt like it was a huge responsibility for just two or three of us to call the genes in the first place,so it was nice to know that mistakes that were made could be forgiven. I continue to learn more and I look forward to getting even better at the gene calling process! And in case you don’t believe me,yes,we were all a little weird in high school…(see Josh’blog). And I am in no way referring to the photo of Sam Worthington saved to my desktop!!! cough cough So for some reason,Apollo decided to dislike me last week,and none of my genes appeared! So third time’s a charm,I guess,because this time the process went much more quickly. I was successfully able to re-call all of my genes and re-annotate them! And fortunately,there were very few discrepancies between my genes and the same genes called by others in the class. Keep up the good work,everyone! Haha side note:doesn’t it bug you how everything related to phage that starts with an “f”is suddenly spelled with a “ph”? I know it drives my crazy…Anyway,like the title implies,I finally finished annotating my 9 genes today! Fortunately the computer decided to recover my annotated genes from last time (surprise,this is a first),so my work was nearly complete! I am looking forward to comparing my genes to those of others and seeing just how I can improve my annotation skills and get better at this whole process! Exciting,yay. | ||||||
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